What do you expect from DC?

Anonymous wrote:I just moved to a state that does this. I have seen homeless people pick up discarded cans off the street. Literally cleaning up litter.

We collect our cans in a separate container. It takes zero extra seconds.

In DC we house the Homeless in market rate luxury apartments. They are not going to pick up trash.

I just moved to a state that does this. I have seen homeless people pick up discarded cans off the street. Literally cleaning up litter.

We collect our cans in a separate container. It takes zero extra seconds.

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Anonymous wrote:Eh I am from a state that does this and have zero issues with it.

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Colorado (Boulder/Denver) has this no issues.

In areas that do not offer municipal curbside recycling, the bottle tax makes some sense. In cities like DC where there is an existing municipal recycling program, it makes little sense.

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Anonymous wrote:Eh I am from a state that does this and have zero issues with it.

DC needs to stop making everything more expensive and ruining quality of life. This will policy will be magnet for homeless people all around the country.

As you typed this, do you know how many states already have this? Has it changed the homeless population in those states?

We have 13 “community activists” on the Council. I don’t think a single one of them has spent a single day in the private sector. Not one has ever run a business. Not some DC white collar consultant business, but a real bricks and mortar business with rent, payroll, inventory, etc. And it shows every time they open their mouths.

Anonymous wrote:This is totally on brand for progressive crazies. Rather than addressing the actual problem, LITTERING, they come up with a new expensive program that won’t solve the underlying problem. I just can’t anymore with these people.

Well you know you could move back to whatever flyover state that come from

This is a special kind of stupid. DC retailers have been devastated by retail theft over the past three years thanks in large part to the soft on crime ideas from Brianna and her comrades on the Council. Many stores have closed. Why on earth is she hoisting a costly new recycling system on them when a perfectly good curbside system is already in place?

Anonymous wrote:Eh I am from a state that does this and have zero issues with it.

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Colorado (Boulder/Denver) has this no issues.

I grew up in Michigan so this concept is very familiar. I don’t have a problem with it in theory but I have zero confidence that the program will work as it should here. The DC Council will find a way to make it as difficult as possible for residents to comply. This city can’t even handle basic city services and installs traffic cameras in lieu of actual traffic enforcement. They aren’t doing any heavy lifting.

And if this recycling idea gets implemented, people will just go to VA and MD to buy beverages to avoid the tax. In larger states like MI it’s harder to drive into another state to buy beverages unless you live near the border, so most MI residents have no choice. Here it is far easier for many people to go to VA or MD to shop. For that reason, this program may not work as intended here.

Do you want homeless people dumping all the trash all over trash files DC?

Anonymous wrote:This is such a silly idea that will not move the needle on recycling, it will only increase costs to consumers and businesses. Anyone responsible enough to clean, store, and lug recycling back to a store is already good about recycling at curbside.

Yup. It's just a new tax. That's all.

Anonymous wrote:More expensive goods and homeless people hanging out in the grocery store. Sounds great.

The homeless won’t be around the grocery store any more than usual. In California they carry the bottles and cans they find around with them in their carts and push their carts all the way to the recycle center where they give a cash refund.

This is such a silly idea that will not move the needle on recycling, it will only increase costs to consumers and businesses. Anyone responsible enough to clean, store, and lug recycling back to a store is already good about recycling at curbside.

So the funds are going to go into alcohol sales and lottery tickets